2 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

One sunny day, I drove to the airport and was waiting to pick up a friend. That day I had one of those experiences that change people’s lives.

It happened just two feet away from me. I was sitting on a bench and looked around the big waiting hall. Just then I noticed a man, carrying two bags, coming toward me. He stopped next to me. There stood his family, the wife and three lovely kids. He greeted them, with a big smile on his face.

First of all, he laid down his bag and came closer to his younger son (about six years old). They gave each other a warm, loving hug. Then the father looked in his son’s eyes with words, “I missed you so much. It’s so good to see you, son!” The boy smiled and said, “Me too, dad.”

Then the man talked to his older son (nine or ten years old). “Oh, you are quite the young man. I love you very much!” and cupped his face. Then they had the most tender hug too.

Afterwards the father said, “Hi, baby girl” to his baby daughter. She was moving excitedly in her mother’s arm and watching her returning father all the time. The man gently took his little daughter, quickly kissed her face all over and then held her close to his chest. The little girl laid her head on his shoulder in pure contentment.

After several moments, the man put down the baby daughter slowly. He turned to his wife and looked at her gently and said, “I’ve saved the best for last.” He shared with her the most passionate kiss. They stared at each other, having big smiles. They reminded(使想起) me of newlyweds(新婚夫妇).

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Suddenly, I heard myself asking, “Wow, how long have you been married?”

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I was shocked, as I imagined that he had been gone for several weeks at least.

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5 . Eeva Simons shows us that a physical disability doesn’t necessarily bar one from dancing on the stage. With skillful handling, she can make her wheelchair do graceful moves and win applause worldwide. The 34-year-old is among a group of four Finnish performers with different physical disabilities.

Simons has been bound to a wheelchair since jumping from a roof in a suicide attempt that ended her dancing career 16 years ago. She said that for a long time she had been depressed, with no idea how to adapt to her changed conditions. “The incident had a big effect on me,” she said. “I had never thought what it would be like to be a wheelchair user. It was difficult.”

But positive changes came several years later when she met a group of disabled people at a community centre. Their interest in alternative ways of movement lighted her love for dance and life again.

Simons joined the PAA troupe, which experimented with new approaches to performing. In 2000, the group put on their first show. Although many professional dance moves are not possible, the show has been running more than 10 countries in Europe and won the “Theatre Event of the Year 2000” award in Finland.

Simons said her part required the upper part of her body to be strong, especially her arms, which had to perform everything from hand gestures to powering the wheelchair. “It is a challenge. We use our creativity to think of alternative ways to find beauty,” she said.

In one moving scene about her post-accident mental condition, the frustrated Simons sits on the floor, before crawling to a wheelchair and accepting her new tool. Director Paasonen said the dancers were sharing their life experiences, feelings, states and thoughts with audience and that the show was very personal.

“They are people with bodies that have stories to tell,” he said. “The show is about transformation, and how people deal with change, including how to deal with the transformation of our own body after it becomes disabled.”

1. The underlined word “bar” in the first paragraph means ________.

A．save

B．protect

C．encourage

D．prevent

2. From the passage we can infer that Eeva Simons _________.

A．became disabled accidentally.

B．once lost her hope for life.

C．learned how to dance after the incident.

D．wanted to kill herself to end her dancing career.

3. What can we learn about the performers in the PPA troupe?

A．They are creative dancers.

B．Most of them are young.

C．They are able to do all professional dance moves.

D．They are discouraged by their disability.

4. What may be the best title for the passage?

A．A Special Troupe.

B．Disabled Dancers.

C．New Approaches to Dancing.

D．A Wonder in a Wheelchair.

7 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Most people dream of living in a big expensive house. But Tim Shea just wanted to find a place     1     could become his home.

This 70-year-old homeless man had spent several years living on the streets until he became the first resident of a village filled     2     3D- printed little houses.

Shea was chosen to be the first person     3    (move) into Community First Village , a 51- acre site in Austin, Texas. The small houses in the village , like Shea’s 400-square-foot home, were built by the Austin-based start-up company ICON.

Life wasn't easy for Shea before     4     (live) in Community First Village. He lived in an RV(野营车) for most of his life. This made     5    (he) stay away from people. “ I think from my     6    (person) experience of my former lifestyle, I developed a shell,” Shea said. “ I didn't feel secure(安心的)and any time I had the opportunity，I would hide.”

Luckily,    7    (thing) changed when Shea got his new house. Since then, he has been meeting new people and making friends. “Now everything I do     8    (be) just the opposite. I have many activities to do every day with others,” Shea said.

The houses     9    (design) by ICON have six different layouts (布局). Shea chose a home with an open floor. This way,     10     will be easier for him to use his wheelchair.

8 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

The sun was burning hot on July 26th. To seek shelter from the heat, two policemen went into a grocery store to treat themselves to a cold drink. As soon as they stepped into the store, the guard in the store walked towards them. The guard told them that he saw an ongoing crime (犯罪)     1     accident. A woman was hiding something in her bag secretly.

The policemen took the woman to the security office and searched her bag carefully. The woman didn’t seem like an experienced shoplifter (商店扒手). All they found was just some food, nothing else. She was obviously terrified, and her face was wet with tears. One policeman asked the other, “It     2     be the first time for her to steal something, isn’t it?” “To tell you     3     truth, I am in debt and I have been penniless for months. In addition, I’m suffering from severe     4     (starve) but I don’t have money for food. I should not have done such a thing,” she explained,     5     (seem) rather scared. She said that due to her being     6     (disable), she couldn’t earn her living.     7     (catch) on the spot, the woman thought she would be arrested (逮捕) undoubtedly. The policemen discussed how they would deal with the matter     8     (flexible). Then they reached a decision without any more discussion. One of the policemen said to the woman, “So far your bag     9     (check) and we have known something about you.” Then they accompanied the woman to a cashier desk, where they paid for this woman’s food and bought her other necessities out of sympathy. Then she was allowed     10     (leave). What they did really caused a hot discussion among people in the city.

9 . Province pays tribute (致敬) to a man, 24, who died trying to rescue a suicidal (自杀的) woman. Chen Jianjun, a 24-year-old firefighter from Anhui province, was granted the Anhui May 4th medal after his death—the highest honor for outstanding young people in the province on Saturday, a day after he died while trying to rescue a woman who was threatening to jump off a building.

On Friday morning, the public security bureau in Mengcheng county, Bozhou, received a call about a woman who was attempting to commit suicide.

During the rescue effort, Chen and the woman fell from the roof of a four-story shopping mall. Both of them died after emergency treatment failed, according to a statement released by Mengcheng police.

“The woman was emotional and ignored the persuasion of police and firefighters. She suddenly jumped off the building, and a firefighter moved forward to rescue her. They both fell in the process,” it said. A video clip (片段) circulated online showed a woman in black walking on the roof while Chen, dressed in an orange uniform, was trying to approach her from behind. As the woman suddenly stepped forward, he rushed to grab her, but they suddenly fell off the roof together. Chen held on to the woman as they fell.

On Sunday, an eyewitness told Jimu News—a news portal of Chutian Metropolis Daily, a newspaper based in Hubei province—that an air cushion (垫子) was laid on the ground, and firefighters kept moving it to match the movements of the woman on the roof, but she kept changing her position too quickly for them to keep up with her.

Chen was from Huainan, Anhui. A firefighter since 2014, he helped fight more than 1,300 fires and saved about 100 people, China Fire and Rescue said on its WeChat social media account.

People hailed the young firefighter as a hero and expressed their respect on social media platforms. On Saturday night, dozens of Mengcheng residents gathered at the site of the tragedy (不幸) to pay tribute to Chen, lighting candles to honor his sacrifice.

The video showed Chen was attached to a safety rope while falling, but it is not clear why it failed to hold him and the woman.

1. Why did the woman want to kill herself?

A．The report didn’t tell us.	B．The boss had just fired her.
C．She had some mental problems.	D．She didn’t get along well with her family.

2. How did the tragedy happen?

A．The safety rope was broken as they fell.

B．Chen held on to the woman as they fell.

C．The woman grabbed Chen and they both fell.

D．The air cushion was too small to catch them.

3. What does the underlined word “hailed” in Para.7 mean?

A．Reviewed.	B．Understood.
C．Analyzed.	D．Praised.

4. What may be the best title for the news report?

A．Late Anhui firefighter given honors

B．Late Anhui firefighter saves about 100 people

C．Anhui firefighter trying to rescue suicidal woman

D．Anhui firefighter helps fight more than 1,300 fires

10 . Surgery (外科手术) and hospital stays are scary things to face for a child. At the Akron Children’s Hospital in Ohio, there’s a creative doctor called Dr. Robert Parry doing his part to ease young minds. Not only is he a doctor, but he’s also an artist.

Dr. Robert Parry has been working at the hospital since 2011 and has performed over 10,000 surgeries. Each time, he takes the opportunity to decorate a child’s wound dressing by drawing something special for them on it. It takes him just five minutes, but for the children, it makes all the difference.

“It’s been a pretty special thing for everyone,” Dr. Parry explained. “It’s fun for me to do that. The parents and the children really enjoy it.”

Samantha Manning got to experience Dr. Parry’s work. He got operated on her 11-month daughter, Rose in 2017. “We had no idea ahead of time that this was Dr. Parry’s special skill,” she recalled.

“We were really moved by it,” she continued. “The rose garden showed how much they cared and they really lifted our spirits.”

As for what inspired Dr. Parry to provide the personal touch, he said that another doctor’s similar practice gave him the idea. Dr. Perry Stafford would cut dressing material into fun shapes for patients at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland during Dr. Parry’s residency (实习期).

Dr. Parry has also mastered the art of drawing on the dressings without infection (感染). “I use Telfa dressings (not an ideal material for art) and cut out the outline of the image by hand,” he explains. “Then I color it by using color pens. It does not go directly on the wound—it’s protected by a plastic dressing.”

“During a time of stress for families, it is nice to be able to help them smile and laugh,” Dr. Parry said. “This is something positive that I can do for them, which is what I like most about it.”

1. What does Dr. Robert Parry do to ease the fears of young patients?

A．He draws lovely pictures on their bandages.	B．He tells jokes to make them laugh.
C．He teaches them to draw.	D．He dresses himself up.

2. What does the underlined word “this” in paragraph 4 refer to?

A．Playing with children.	B．Doing surgery on Rose.
C．Drawing an image of a rose garden.	D．Making Rose relaxed during the surgery.

3. How did Dr. Parry think of the way to help his little patients?

A．Through his interest in art.	B．Through his great medical skill.
C．From his concern for children.	D．From a doctor doing a similar thing.

4. How does Dr. Parry feel in terms of his act?

A．Doubtful.

B．Pleased.

C．Disappointed.

D．Embarrassed.